[2.6 patch] document that udev isn't yet ready

Adrian Bunk
2003-10-08T12:07:21Z

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:30:21AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 21:51:27 +0000, Greg KH wrote:
> > And remember, _I_ did not submit that patch to the kernel marking devfs
> > obsolete. Other kernel developers did. And for good reasons, which
> > have all been explained before. Even if udev wasn't even written yet,
> > it would have been done.
>
> "Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,"
>
> Most people expect after reading that sentence, that udev can do the
> work devfs did for them. But udev is not ready to do that, even by
> far. Thats why people complain.
>...

The following trivial change to te help text should clarify it:

--- linux-2.6.0-test6-mm4/fs/Kconfig.old 2003-10-08 14:02:15.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.0-test6-mm4/fs/Kconfig 2003-10-08 14:03:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@
ptys, you will also need to enable (and mount) the /dev/pts
filesystem (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS).

- Note that devfs has been obsoleted by udev,
+ Note that devfs will be obsoleted by udev
<http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/>.
It has been stripped down to a bare minimum and is only provided for
legacy installations that use its naming scheme which is

> Regards, Andreas

cu
Adrian

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